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@eikebentley.bsky.social

aka. Studio Elfriede ║ writer + VN dev (Because We're Here) ║ elegant diabetic aristocrat ║ he/him ║ banner by @ladymeowsith.bsky.social see also: https://linktr.ee/studioelfriede

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I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time

now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp

28.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 3184    🔁 708    💬 93    📌 98
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for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed

28.02.2026 07:02 — 👍 2808    🔁 1016    💬 4    📌 6
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The Demon Queen's Dire Dilemma has been released!
It's a silly yuri story about an adorable- I mean, very scary demon queen who's trying (and failing) to make her ditzy human maid fear her. What's a demon queen to do?!

😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3446430
😈 ebihime.itch.io/demon-queen

26.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 152    🔁 70    💬 6    📌 4

Fallout NPC who just maintains the vault's Plex Server.

27.02.2026 00:17 — 👍 1024    🔁 121    💬 15    📌 8
BREAKING:
THERE'S ONE POINT IN IT.
LABOUR
28%
REFORM
27%
Fieldwork date: February 2026
Fieldwork source: OPINIUM/BYLINE TIMES
Piomoted by holle lodiey on tenor a the loodurroy, ooh 01 22 kush vo h 38eel Locoon, Stiv95

BREAKING: THERE'S ONE POINT IN IT. LABOUR 28% REFORM 27% Fieldwork date: February 2026 Fieldwork source: OPINIUM/BYLINE TIMES Piomoted by holle lodiey on tenor a the loodurroy, ooh 01 22 kush vo h 38eel Locoon, Stiv95

Gorton and Denton by-election result
Candidates gaining more than 1% of the vote
Party
Candidate
Change
Vote share
since 2024
Green
Hannah Spencer
41%
A +28%
Reform UK
Matt Goodwin
29%
A +15%
Labour
Angeliki Stogia
26%
* -25%
Conservative
Charlotte Cadden
2%1
• -6%
Lib Dem
Jackie Pearcey
2%1
-2%
Turnout: 47.5%

Gorton and Denton by-election result Candidates gaining more than 1% of the vote Party Candidate Change Vote share since 2024 Green Hannah Spencer 41% A +28% Reform UK Matt Goodwin 29% A +15% Labour Angeliki Stogia 26% * -25% Conservative Charlotte Cadden 2%1 • -6% Lib Dem Jackie Pearcey 2%1 -2% Turnout: 47.5%

Yeah?

27.02.2026 06:05 — 👍 635    🔁 77    💬 2    📌 6

Congratulations to The Green Party and Hannah Spencer for such a strong victory in Gorton and Denton - Matt Goodwin seems to be blaming a dirty tricks campaign of the Greens persuading people to vote for them by having policies people wanted to vote for

27.02.2026 08:56 — 👍 1804    🔁 256    💬 59    📌 6

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back.

It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

26.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 1269    🔁 761    💬 3    📌 4
The cover page for Pillars on Poppy Hills, featuring two Pillars atop of Hills covered in red poppies.

The cover page for Pillars on Poppy Hills, featuring two Pillars atop of Hills covered in red poppies.

It's been 5 years since I published my very first #visualnovel, Pillars on Poppy Hills! For its 5th anniversary, I did a big overhaul on its GUI, added some accessibility, and there's 4 new side stories you can check out!

#vndev #PJPartyProj

knickknackpj.itch.io/pillarsonpop...

26.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 17    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
A screenshot from my yuri curator's list (1/2).
The Neverending Summer, Qianse, Secret Dance, optimal conditions for a sacrifice, Kiss the Demiurge, The Fairy's Secret, The Fairy's Song, A Field of Flowers and Stars.

A screenshot from my yuri curator's list (1/2). The Neverending Summer, Qianse, Secret Dance, optimal conditions for a sacrifice, Kiss the Demiurge, The Fairy's Secret, The Fairy's Song, A Field of Flowers and Stars.

A screenshot from my yuri curator's list (2/2).
Fleeting Summer's End, The Final Prize is Soup, The Intertwining Imprints, Flowering Across, Waterside Chirping, Desert Blossom, Team ANPIM's Adult Life Bundle, The Neverending Summer.

A screenshot from my yuri curator's list (2/2). Fleeting Summer's End, The Final Prize is Soup, The Intertwining Imprints, Flowering Across, Waterside Chirping, Desert Blossom, Team ANPIM's Adult Life Bundle, The Neverending Summer.

I recently started a little Steam curator, where I collect narrative #yuri games by small indie devs, that I personally enjoyed, including works in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Just 23 reviews so far, but there will be more!! Check the thread for extra info~
store.steampowered.com/curator/4571...

02.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 39    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2

You really do have to take dating sims/romances seriously. Not love them. Not know everything about them. Not even play them. But take them seriously. They're a legitimate, influential, long-running genre, and the lack of awareness and acceptance in English-speaking circles should be embarrassing.

24.02.2026 07:22 — 👍 1320    🔁 421    💬 15    📌 15

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

23.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 9603    🔁 3913    💬 36    📌 78

wet_haybale joined PeasantChat.

<puddlesipper> wellcome ye back
<wet_haybale> ta
<puddlesipper> hast tha seen the moon this eve
<wet_haybale> nay be it ftrange ?
<HimWhatEkes> tis red
<wet_haybale> that be new ?
<gleanmachine> Zounds man do ye ever look up?
<wet_haybale> not unlefs it pleafe milord

23.11.2025 05:03 — 👍 141    🔁 53    💬 0    📌 0
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The first draft of the script for Our Light Affliction: Spider's Covenant is officially done 🥳
Total word count is 36k words, 4 times the length of my previous game Duskbound!

Get ready to meet Lucifrid and Ilya soon 🙏

Promo art by @/mgr_skb

17.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Black and white lineart only drawing a woman knight in armor, looking tired from battle, a bit lost, holding a necklace in her right hand
Her armor has some leaves and thorns shaped engravings

Black and white lineart only drawing a woman knight in armor, looking tired from battle, a bit lost, holding a necklace in her right hand Her armor has some leaves and thorns shaped engravings

lost knight

13.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 2250    🔁 530    💬 20    📌 4

first listen down; it's phenomenal. Dan's music deserves all the appreciators in the world. please do check it out!!

13.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

NEW DOG BONFIRES ! ! !

13.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No joke if you're not tapping into the english VN scene you're REALLY missing out, we're literally sitting on a massive, burgeoning and flourishing space of trans expression and storytelling unlike any we've had before, with no restriction by market forces

13.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 593    🔁 222    💬 4    📌 2

Lets remake “Come and See” with better vibes 😊🤞🙏

12.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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'Trans Theft Horso' - Chasing Hormones in the Wild West Trans Theft Horso tasks you with picking up your brother's hormones in a western story full of crime, adventure, and trans joy.

I got the chance to preview Trans Theft Horso by @cowchildren.bsky.social at @adventurex.bsky.social - which I wrote up for @indiegamesplus.com! It's an adventure game about chasing hormones in the wild west.

indiegamesplus.com/trans-theft-...

12.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

your vote has weight outside of election day. regardless of how you end up voting, until then you can bargain with it. the lesser evils are watching you, if you promise your vote for nothing you'll get nothing. say you wont vote for bad candidates. say you'll only vote for policies you like

12.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 1514    🔁 236    💬 8    📌 6

"i promise right now, years away from an election, to vote for an awful shitbag bigot because he isn't the other guy" shut da fuck up. you are making things worse

12.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 3420    🔁 594    💬 32    📌 8

It's been a while, so it's again time I mention one of my personal favorite VNs, On Mount Ségou by @lrwerther.bsky.social

A short, evocative dark fantasy / horror / mystery story that you can read through in probably fifteen minutes.

rastagong.itch.io/on-mount-segou

11.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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The Prepper Mindset. | Notion Managing anxiety in a world that refuses to end.

in case anyone else feels like they're teetering on the edge of complete doomerism lately, i wrote an overly personal essay about choosing to be our best selves in spite of the horrors.

06.02.2026 07:32 — 👍 63    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 3
a woman with short, wide hair wearing a magician-like coat, she has swirly glasses on 2 of the main drawings, heres a drawing of her in a teacher like costume on the corner and her brother drawn like an creature on another

a woman with short, wide hair wearing a magician-like coat, she has swirly glasses on 2 of the main drawings, heres a drawing of her in a teacher like costume on the corner and her brother drawn like an creature on another

Raine Sage Tales of Symphonia

05.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 263    🔁 131    💬 5    📌 0

Christ this sucks. Fobazi coined the term "vocational awe" and got an extremely important conversation going re: the amount of straight-up martyrship librarians are expected to put up with during this era of pain and madness. She was also a super nice person. Rest in power.

05.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 40    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

king of the hill visual novel background

04.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 2376    🔁 863    💬 12    📌 13
Excerpt from a blog post "We are essentially watching the mainstream video game industry transform from a creative powerhouse into a high-end museum gift shop, where the primary business model is selling us souvenirs of experiences we had twenty years ago rather than creating new memories. The tragedy isn’t that these remakes are bad games, as I said before, many of them are technically brilliant productions; but that their dominance signals a complete lack of faith in the future of the medium. The industry has become so efficient at monetizing our past that it has forgotten how to invest in its own future, creating a feedback loop that feels increasingly claustrophobic.”

Excerpt from a blog post "We are essentially watching the mainstream video game industry transform from a creative powerhouse into a high-end museum gift shop, where the primary business model is selling us souvenirs of experiences we had twenty years ago rather than creating new memories. The tragedy isn’t that these remakes are bad games, as I said before, many of them are technically brilliant productions; but that their dominance signals a complete lack of faith in the future of the medium. The industry has become so efficient at monetizing our past that it has forgotten how to invest in its own future, creating a feedback loop that feels increasingly claustrophobic.”

Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof

02.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 315    🔁 114    💬 6    📌 9

Nice opinion on trans people, did a billionaire pedophile give it to you?

01.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 3693    🔁 1192    💬 14    📌 10